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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Brand and the Woman go back the way she has come?
(a) Her husband is looking for her and has a gun.
(b) The river has flooded and cannot be crossed on foot.
(c) The bridge was destroyed by the storm.
(d) A pack of wild animals guards the pass.

2. Why does the woman refuse to go with Brand across the fjord?
(a) She is afraid of dying and her children need their mother.
(b) There is no one to go home to.
(c) She is afraid that her husband will kill her.
(d) Because she does not know him.

3. As the men return to the settlement, Brand comments on their appearance. What does he say they have been driven out of?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Paradise.
(c) The fjord.
(d) Hell.

4. In the opening act, who is with Brand?
(a) No one- he is alone.
(b) His wife and a maid.
(c) The schoolmaster and a clerk.
(d) A peasant and his son.

5. After the doctor leaves, Brand enters his house. What does he find has happened to Alf?
(a) Alf is very ill.
(b) Alf is dead.
(c) Alf has burned himself on the stove.
(d) Alf has ran away.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Brand addresses the men who have come to the Woman's house, where does he say the left eye turns toward?

2. Agnes has a vision. What does she claim to have seen in this vision?

3. When Brand sees the valley for the first time, what does Brand realize about the land he has just entered?

4. Where are Einar and Agnes going on their journey?

5. How does one of the men convince Brand to stay in the settlement?

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